native是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 本地的， 本国的； 天生的n. 本地人， 本国人，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The native bore both the tomahawk and knife of his tribe; and yet his appearance was not altogether that of a warrior.
-- His eye, alone, which glistened like a fiery star amid lowering clouds, was to be seen in its state of native wildness.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is remarkable that the visionary propensity I have The Legend of Sleepy Hollowmentioned is not confined to the native inhabitants of the valley, but is unconsciously imbibed by every one who re-sides there for a time.
-- He was a native of Connecticut, a State which supplies the Union with pioneers for the mind as well as for the forest, and sends forth yearly its legions of frontier woodmen and country schoolmasters.
-- He repaid them in kind with large extracts from his invaluable author, Cot-ton Mather, and added many marvellous events that had taken place in his native State of Connecticut, and fearful sights which he had seen in his nightly walks about Sleepy Hollow.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Heinemann, 1913.芒聭路 This was described in Christie's catalogue as follows: "A nude woman, a native of the Society Islands, is lying on the ground beside a brook.
-- I wandered round to the kitchen, but it was locked, and on a bench outside it a native boy was sleeping.
-- But it was nice to see that any unpleasantness he had endured in his native land had not impaired his ardent patriotism.
-- The daughter of a native and an English sea-captain settled in Tahiti, when I knew her she was a woman of fifty, who looked older, and of enormous proportions.
-- From morning till night you saw her sitting on a low chair in the kitchen, surrounded by a Chinese cook and two or three native girls, giving her orders, chatting sociably with all and sundry, and tasting the savoury messes she devised.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was a native of Massachusetts, a first-class engineer, to whom the government had confided, during the war, the direction of the railways, which were so important at that time.
-- Native lodestones consist of this ore, and iron of the first quality is made in Europe from that with which Sweden and Norway are so abundantly supplied.
-- As to the animal's flesh it would furnish excellent food, for in the islands of the Malay Archipelago and elsewhere, it is especially reserved for the table of the native princes.
-- Everything prospered, as well in the corral as in Granite House, and certainly the settlers, if it had not been that they were so far from their native land, had no reason to complain.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'May the present moment,' said Dick, sticking his fork into a large carbuncular potato, 'be the worst of our lives!I like the plan of sending 'em with the peel on; there's a charm in drawing a potato from its native element (if I may so express it) to which the rich and powerful are strangers.
-- Not caring to represent to the dwarf in his present humour, that the loss of a key by another person could scarcely be said to affect his (Brass's) legal knowledge in any material degree, Mr Brass humbly suggested that it must have been forgotten over night, and was, doubtless, at that moment in its native key-hole.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then came the women in the same order, in gray coats and 'kerchiefs, those sentenced to hard labor coming first; then the exiles, and finally those voluntarily following their husbands, in their native costumes.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He stopped a little from the inn, and raising his voice in an odd sing-song, addressed the air in front of him, "Will any kind friend inform a poor blind man, who has lost the precious sight of his eyes in the gracious defence of his native country, England and God bless King George! where or in what part of this country he may now be?"
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The 6th of July, about three o'clock in the afternoon, the Abraham Lincoln, at fifteen miles to the south, doubled the solitary island, this lost rock at the extremity of the American continent, to which some Dutch sailors gave the name of their native town, Cape Horn.
-- However, I had not seen a single native canoe.
-- Conseil and I were absorbed in the contemplation of our treasure, and I was promising myself to enrich the museum with it, when a stone unfortunately thrown by a native struck against, and broke, the precious object in Conseil's hand.
-- But the first native who placed his hand on the stair-rail, struck from behind by some invisible force, I know not what, fled, uttering the most fearful cries and making the wildest contortions.
-- Soon the Nautilus returned to her native element, and the manometer showed that she was about thirty feet deep.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was about him a curious, and almost godlike air of simplicity and native directness.
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